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Scottish combined events championships
Grangemouth 13/14 July 2019
under 13s report

Central had 3 under 13s competing with Dylan McCulloch in the under 13 boys pentathlon and Loren Stewart and Niamh McKinlay taking on the under 13 girls pentathlon.
Dylan opened well with 1.19m in the high jump then had an excellent run in the hurdles finishing 2nd place with 14.09s, to move up to 5th place overall. He followed this up with another pb in the shot with 6.85m then a near pb at long jump (4.11m) and finished with 2:47.27 minutes in the 800m. This gave him a personal best final score of 1260 points and a respectable 7th place out of 17 athletes.
The under 13 girls pentathlon saw Loren Stewart and Niamh McKinlay taking part. Both athletes are young for the age group so were looking for experience for the future. They started in the high jump where Niamh cleared 1.15m. However Loren had a superb competition as she jumped personal bests at 1.31, 1.34m then clearing 1.37m to smash her pb, win her pool and place 3rd overall. In the 70m hurdles Niamh set a personal best 15.34s and Loren ran 17.42s in her first ever attempt at this event. In the long jump Loren managed 3.96m and Niamh 3.05m. Loren set another personal best in the shot throwing 5.38m with Niamh just missing her pb with a throw of 4.41m. Both girls had good runs in the 800m, Niamh placed 2nd in her heat with 2:47.38 minutes while Loran set a personal best 2:52.85 minutes for 3rd in her heat. Overall Loren set a new personal best score 1626 points and Niamh finished on 1327 points. Both girls have another year in this age group and will look to improve for next year. ...

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Scottish combined events championships
Grangemouth 13/14 July 2019
under 15s & under 17s report

Scott Hopper was on great form as he won an excellent bronze medal at the Scottish combined events championships. The 14 year old from Callander was competing in the under 15 boys age group in his first ever pentathlon. Scott was looking for a good start with his strongest event, the shot, up first, and a superb final round personal best throw of 12.89m opened up a 100 point lead on his opponents. However he knew his lead was vulnerable as the next event was the 80m hurdles, an event he has never done before, and he had some of Scotland’s top hurdlers lining up against him. However he was undaunted and produced a respectable time of 13.21s which was just enough to maintain his lead. Scott found himself in a high class high jump event and cleared 1.64m for second in the event but with a rival clearing 1.73m, Scott lost his lead and dropped down to second place overall. He then produced another good performance in the long jump with 5.40m for second place in the event but good performances elsewhere put Scott down to 3rd place overall. Going into the final 800m events just 21 points separated the top 3 which is just 2 seconds in the 800 metres so everything was still to play for. Scott ran hard but was unable to make inroads against the 2 athletes ahead of him as one ran off to take victory and the other stuck right behind Scott to take silver. However Scott dug in and finished in a big personal best 2:25.69 minutes and was rewarded with a bronze medal with a final score of 2574, a superb performance considering he had never done a pentathlon before and had so little experience in some of the events.
Also competing for Central in the event was Ruairidh Burns who set personal bests in the shot (7.20m), 80m hurdles (14.34s) and high jump (1.55m) and finished 2nd in the 800m with 2:17.93 minutes to score an overall personal best 2065 points for a respectable 5th place. Ruaridh has another year in this age group so will look to challenge for the medals next year.
Central were well represented in under 15 girls age group with Scottish schools bronze medallist, Katherine Fowler joined by Ellen Montgomery and Brogan MacMillan. In the opening long jump event Katherine placed 4th with 4.67m, Ellen set a pb 4.12m and Brogan jumped 3.36m.
In the 75m hurdles Katherine set a personal best 12.96s for 5thn place with Ellen running 14.00s and Brogan 16.27s. Brogan set a personal best in the shot with 6.27m as Katherine threw 7.20m and Ellen 6.73m.
In the high jump Katherine was on superb form as she cleared an excellent personal best 1.53m, the second highest of the competition. Brogan and Ellen both managed seasons bests with 1.29m and 1.26m respectively.
The 800m saw Ellen and Brogan run in the first heat. Ellen ran a good seasons best 2:52.41 minutes to finish on a personal best score 1942 points for 12th place. Brogan ran 2:54.56 minutes for a personal best score 1585 points and 14th place.
The final heat saw the event leaders go head to head. Katherine’s excellent high jump had lifted her to 5th place but she still needed to pick up 100 points to get into the medals. In the end she finished with 2:39.27 minutes and though she had overtaken some of the athletes ahead of her the final scores saw her in 4th place, just outside the medals, with 2628 points, still a respectable position but slightly down on her personal best.
Molly Cornes was taking on her first ever heptathlon with the challenge of competing over 2 days. She started with a personal best in the 80m hurdles with 13.90s for 5th place then produced a superb high jump of 1.59m, second highest of the day to go 4th overall. 8.22m in shot and 27.16s at 200m saw her in 5th place at the end of the first day. In the second day, 4.74m at long jump then 15.95m at javelin moved her up to 4th going into the 800m. Molly ran a personal best 800m of 2:41.81 minutes to do all she could to get a medal as she beat the third places athlete by 8 seconds but this was not quite enough to get on the podium. However Molly can be proud of 4th place with a score of 3671 points in her first ever heptathlon. ...

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Congratulations to Emma Mailer who will be representing Scotland in the 400h at the
Welsh Athletics International on Wednesday the 20th of July! 👏 🎉 ...

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Fantastic emma. Well done.

Well done Emma and Team JD!

Well done Emma!

Well done Emma! ⭐️

Well done to Emma and her team.

Well done Emma. 👏🏻👏🏻

Well done Emma. We could have had 2 400 hurdlers as Jack Houghton was selected for the junior men’s team after his club record 55.9 run earlier this season but unfortunately he was unavailable that day and had to turn it down.

Thanks everyone !!

Go Emma🏃🏼‍♀️

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